Word: tarnish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week Xerox's stock had fallen a drastic 18¼ points since the September announcement, costing the company's investors a paper loss of $400 million and reflecting a widespread notion that a link with solid but unspectacular C.I.T. could only tarnish Xerox as a glittering growth stock. At any rate, there were palpable signs of stockholder relief when the deal was finally dropped. In the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange after the announcement, Xerox was bid up 6½ points to $277.25 a share...
...staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., the world's largest and best-known brokerage house, of practicing fraud and deceit by misusing inside information. Even though Merrill Lynch immediately protested its innocence, the charges by their very nature can only tarnish Wall Street's zealously nurtured image. That image is of a market where 24 million investors can trade with confidence that they are not being cheated...
Critics' Cries. Although his camp now claims considerably more than the 1,312 delegate votes that Humphrey will need to win in Chicago, the Vice President's operatives are straining to promote an open convention, lest the critics' outcries of "fix" tarnish his victory. Humphrey's survival in November, they reason, depends upon his emerging from Chicago with the image of a cool, competent and widely popular candidate. Bitter floor fights, coupled with the expected massive demonstrations outside the hall, would hardly foster that impression...
...Rossi's inability to achieve instant success in the majors cannot tarnish his record at Harvard. In his varsity career he accounted for 30 of his team's 57 victories--an unsurpassed achievement, specially for a pitcher with only a "fair curveball...
...early 1890's, Harvard's domination of college track began to wane. The Golden Age began to tarnish after the Crimson's 11th Intercollegiate title in 1892--its last for a long time. For the next four years, Harvard struggled to stay in contention. Then, in 1896--its last pressive last gasp effort that would be followed by a sustained slump in the track department--Harvard's tiny contingent to the first of the modern Olympic Games in Athens picked up five gold medals...